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* [[I Sense a Disturbance In The Force]]: Nick uses this to sense {{spoiler|the bomb}} in the book.
* [[I Sense a Disturbance In The Force]]: Nick uses this to sense {{spoiler|the bomb}} in the book.
* [[Mayor of a Ghost Town]]: in Shoyo.
* [[Mayor of a Ghost Town]]: in Shoyo.
* [[No Holds Barred Beatdown]]: Nick receives one of these in his first scene in the book.
* [[No-Holds-Barred Beatdown]]: Nick receives one of these in his first scene in the book.
* {{spoiler|[[Sacrificial Lion]]}}
* {{spoiler|[[Sacrificial Lion]]}}
* [[The Smart Guy]]
* [[The Smart Guy]]
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* [[Locked Into Strangeness]]
* [[Locked Into Strangeness]]
* {{spoiler|[[Face Heel Turn]]}}
* {{spoiler|[[Face Heel Turn]]}}
* [[Heel Face Door Slam]]: Nadine Cross spent her life believing she had to save her virginity for [[Dream Weaver]] Flagg, who is revealed to be an expy for [[The Antichrist]]. When she falls in love with [[Jerk With a Heart of Gold|Larry]] instead, she initially rebuffs his advances, then desperately asks him to sleep with her (after he has fallen in love with someone else) to break her commitment to Flagg. When [[Friend or Idol Decision|Larry refuses]], Nadine falls in with Flagg. (see Ignored Epiphany below.)
* [[Heel Face Door Slam]]: Nadine Cross spent her life believing she had to save her virginity for [[Dream Weaver]] Flagg, who is revealed to be an expy for [[The Antichrist]]. When she falls in love with [[Jerk With a Heart of Gold|Larry]] instead, she initially rebuffs his advances, then desperately asks him to sleep with her (after he has fallen in love with someone else) to break her commitment to Flagg. When [["Friend or Idol?" Decision|Larry refuses]], Nadine falls in with Flagg. (see Ignored Epiphany below.)
* [[Kirk Summation]]: Deliberately done to anger Flagg. Of course, {{spoiler|[[Redemption Equals Death]]}}.
* [[Kirk Summation]]: Deliberately done to anger Flagg. Of course, {{spoiler|[[Redemption Equals Death]]}}.
* [[Meaningful Name]]: Nadine [[Rule of Symbolism|Cross]]
* [[Meaningful Name]]: Nadine [[Rule of Symbolism|Cross]]
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* [[Knife Nut]]
* [[Knife Nut]]
* [[Morality Chain]]: For Nadine.
* [[Morality Chain]]: For Nadine.
* [[Orphans Ordeal]]: After his family's death he nearly died of infection, and was so traumatized he stopped talking and carried a knife all the time. Nadine becames his [[Parental Substitute]] {{spoiler|but it doesn't end well}}. In the end, he's adopted by Larry and Lucy.
* [[Orphan's Ordeal]]: After his family's death he nearly died of infection, and was so traumatized he stopped talking and carried a knife all the time. Nadine becames his [[Parental Substitute]] {{spoiler|but it doesn't end well}}. In the end, he's adopted by Larry and Lucy.
* [[Psychic Powers]]: He seems to have a little telepathy, and he instantly knows {{spoiler|there's something wrong with Harold}}.
* [[Psychic Powers]]: He seems to have a little telepathy, and he instantly knows {{spoiler|there's something wrong with Harold}}.
* [[Trauma Induced Amnesia]]
* [[Trauma-Induced Amnesia]]
* [[Troubled Child]]
* [[Troubled Child]]
* [[The Voiceless]]: When we first meet him. He gets his voice back when he meets Mother Abagail.
* [[The Voiceless]]: When we first meet him. He gets his voice back when he meets Mother Abagail.
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=== '''Richard Theodore Farris''' ===
=== '''Richard Theodore Farris''' ===
{{quote| Also known as [[The Judge|Judge Farris.]] He is a wise old man with a thirst for adventure.}}
{{quote| Also known as [[The Judge|Judge Farris.]] He is a wise old man with a thirst for adventure.}}
* [[As the Good Book Says]]
* [[As the Good Book Says...]]
* [[Badass Grandpa]]
* [[Badass Grandpa]]
* [[The Infiltration]]
* [[The Infiltration]]
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* [[I Owe You My Life]]
* [[I Owe You My Life]]
* [[Iron Woobie]]
* [[Iron Woobie]]
* [[My Master Right or Wrong]]
* [[My Master, Right or Wrong]]
* [[No Party Like a Donner Party]]: In fairness, this was a survival-motivated event, since he was in jail when the plague hit.
* [[No Party Like a Donner Party]]: In fairness, this was a survival-motivated event, since he was in jail when the plague hit.
* [[Pet the Dog]]: Lloyd's affection for Dinny, a four-year-old boy in the Las Vegas camp.
* [[Pet the Dog]]: Lloyd's affection for Dinny, a four-year-old boy in the Las Vegas camp.

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Boulder

Abagail Freemantle

  Abagail is God's prophet on Earth and the guide to the main characters. She is a 108-year-old black woman who lives in Nebraska. Almost every main character dreams of her sitting on her porch, playing her guitar, usually directly after they have a disturbing dream about the Big Bad.

Stuart Redman

  Stu Redman grew up in Arnette, Texas, and was stuck working in a calculator factory to support his brother when his parents died. When the Superflu's Patient Zero crashed into the gas station in his town, Stu was transplanted to a plauge control center in Vermont. A redneck with a heart of gold, Stu quickly became a leader among survivers.

Frannie Goldsmith

  A college girl, Frannie discovered at the beginning of the book that she had become pregnant with her boyfriend, Jess. She had traveled home to Ogonquit, Maine, to tell her parents when the Superflu hit. Frannie cares most about keeping those she loves, especially her unborn child, safe.

Nick Andros

  Nicholas Andros was born deaf-mute, or physically unable to hear or speak. To communicate, he reads lips and writes on a pad of paper. Orphaned at a young age, Nick grew up in an orphanage. He left at age 16 and hitchhiked from town to town, taking odd jobs. Nick was in Shoyo, Arkansas when the Superflu hit. He cannot understand why people look to him as a leader.

Larry Underwood

  Larry started off a career as a singer/songwriter but was unsuccessful until his single, Baby, Can You Dig Your Man? hit it big. He was taken in by people taking advantage of his fame and fortune and traveled to his childhood home in New York City for refuge. Larry is haunted by the words of a woman he slept with, "You ain't no nice guy!" and of his mother, "You're a taker, Larry." He is determined to prove them wrong and terrified that they are right.

Ralph Brentner

Glen Bateman

  Glen was a sociologist and novice painter before the Superflu. When he meets Stu, he is living on his own with an adopted dog, Kojak. He loves to speculate on the post-flu future, and gives Stu and others good advice about the new Boulder government.


Kojak

  Formerly known as Big Steve, Kojak is one of the few dogs to survive the Superflu. He is very smart and fiercely loyal to his new owners, to the point of fighting wolves and running across half the country to be with them.

Tom Cullen

  Tom was born lightly mentally retarded, only able to make certain connections normal people find easy by putting himself in a state of near-hypnosis. He never had any friends until Nick found him lying in the road in his deserted hometown. Despite acting like a child, Tom is braver and smarter than people think.

Harold Emery Lauder

  Harold Lauder grew up in Ogonquit, Maine as the fat kid whom nobody liked. He always had a crush on Frannie Goldsmith but never told her. Harold is extremely bitter and sees his new situation as a chance to get Frannie once and for all.

Nadine Cross

  Nadine has had dreams of the Big Bad, Randall Flagg, since college. She is his promised wife and mother of his child. By the time Larry finds Nadine, she is desperate to find someone to tear her away from Flagg's spell over her, whether it is Larry or Joe.

Joe/Leo Rockway

  Leo was still a kid when the Superflu hit. When Nadine found him, he was sick from an infected rat bite. When she nursed him back to health, he was unable to speak, dressed only in his underpants and carried around a knife the way most kids carry around teddy bears. She named him Joe for lack of a better name.

Dayna Jurgens

  Dayna was traveling with other survivors when they were attacked by a group of rapists. Her friends were killed and she was the group's plaything until the day she and the other girls, along with Stu and Frannie's group, were able to overthrow them. Dayna is fiercely loyal and independent.

Lucy Swann

  Lucy met and fell in love with Larry offscreen. She sees the best in him and tries to help him do the same.

Rita Blakemoor

  Rita was the wife of a rich man and never had to do anything herself until the Superflu hit. She met Larry in New York City and latched on to him. She can't deal with the horrors around her and depends on Larry heavily for support.

Richard Theodore Farris

  Also known as Judge Farris. He is a wise old man with a thirst for adventure.

Susan Stern

  Susan was with Dayna in the group of girls gathered by rapists as playthings. She later was on the Free Zone Committee.


Las Vegas

Randall Flagg

  Randall Flagg, called The Dark Man, Legion, The Walkin' Dude, is the ultimate evil. He is the servant of the Devil himself. He haunts Superflu survivors' dreams and gathers an army of insane or frightened people to him. His smile can drive a man insane and he crucifies those who oppose or fail him.

 "For a favor of this magnitude, I really think you ought to get down on your knees."

Lloyd Henreid

  Lloyd was a small-scale criminal until he met a fellow jailbird, Poke. Together they went on a killing spree until they were eventually caught and Poke was killed. Lloyd is trapped in jail when the Superflu hits and becomes Flagg's right hand man when he is rescued.

Trashcan Man

  Donald Merwin Elbert, nicknamed Trashcan Man because of his childhood habit of burning trash cans, is a pyromaniac of the first order. All he wants is a place where he can blow things up unmolested. He fits right in with Flagg's crowd and becomes undyingly loyal to Flagg.

The Kid

The Rat-Man

Julie Lawry

Barry Dorgan

Whitney Horgan

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